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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

SLspK's SHor-The middle aged citizen can
not recall the time when "A Slick, Tailor first
graced the building on Main Ct. just thirty
years ago Mr.. Abednegc Slick came to this
town and located in that building, where
he remained until this summer. when the
property was sold to the Guardian Hose Co
and he removed to Mr.. w. ]. Freezes build
Ing on Water street.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

PRIMARY MEETrNG.-The republicans of
Mechanicstown Dist will meet in Rouzer's
Hall on Saturday Evening the Gath. Sept.
for the purpose Of selecting delegates to rep.
resent the District in the County Convention
which meets. IN Frederick City Saturday
Oct. list. for the purpose Of nominating
County Officers also to elect Dist. Central
Committee. A good attendance is requested.
.By order of Committee.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

The Carroll Ne1s came to us last week SC
much changed and improved in appearance
that we need make no apology for failing to
recognize it at first. 1t 10 now not only a
home printed paper but rs one among very
few that has set itself honestly and intclli-
gently to work to upbuild the interests Of its
home. Its influence for good will be felt, for
1t is clear. headed and persistent; It Is worthy
of support and failing that, it has less to lose
than has Union Bridge in losing it, as Union
Bridge will find out if 1t fails to extend the
necessary and merited support.
CALL ExTENDED-On Sunday morning
last the pulpit of the Lutheran church, this
place. was filled by Rev. ID. N. Black lder
of Gettysburg, Pa. who also preached again
in the evening. After the sermon in the
morning the congregation held an election
for past or, this, pulpit having been vacant
since the retirement of Rev. w. c. Wire in
June last.
As a result of the ballot DR.. 8. Domcr OF
Washington was declared the choice of the
congregation by unanimous vote.
DIR. Domer did not preach trial sermon
here and it is not known as vet whether he
will accept
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

Our fertilizer men, Messrs. Stocksdale and
Bussard and N G. Croft are in the height
of the season; we are pleased to know that
the we'll established brands of these two
manufacturers are recognized at their worth
by our people. They are as good as the best
and there is no reason why this community
should buy away from home, when we'll
known and reliable business men here at
home are asking for support.
Encourage hone industry. friends T. ID
She only way to benefit US all as q people.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22


BURNED TO DEArH.-On Monday after
noon, last six.year old child ofMr. Thomas
Bricc, residing at the Ore Bank, one mile
south of this place, in the absence of its
father and mother, got the coal oil can
which was full of oil, and held an ignited
match to the spout of the can. The oil ex.
ploded and was thrown in 4 burning sheet
all over the child. 1t was burned from head
to foot, into crisp. The fire was smother.
ed by parties attracted by the report of the
explosion and the screams of the child II
lived about an hour. The mother had tax.
en- her husbands dinner to the Furnace
when the accident occurred. This should
serve as warning to those parents who, in
the presence of their children, use coal oil &c
start the fire.
Matches and coal oil should not he kept
where the children can got them.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

Will observer" kindly inform us in his
next letter of the population and business
interests Of Frsnklinvilles We do not ask
more on the latter point than a list of names
and character OF the business.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

WR1T1No ScHo oL.-Prof. Lantz opened =
writing school here on Monday evening last.
The class numbers II scholars and more are
expected to join. The professor is thorough
ly qualified and perfectly reliable. See Bus
mess Local in another column.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

Mr.. VIM. Martin of Low's Station has re-
signed his position at Waynesboro, Pa,
where he was serving rs one of the telegraph
operators of the w. Nd. railroad and has &C.
cepted position in Washington City, 1t
is step upward and we congratulate our
friend, tho "Owens Creek Boy"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22
Ripe chestnuts.
The sourkrout season approaches.

| DONE UP.--On Friday evening last we re-
turned from most successful expedition
our share Of the game (Which being equally
divided) was II pieces, squirrels and flick
I ers, bat when we recall the fact that out Of
% pieces we brought down but 5, we think
it about time to try some other sport trap
ing mushrooms or giggmg punk. Doc. got
EN- all.
PRIVATE ScnooL.--Mr. J. Calvin Fox hat
built an addition to his dwelling on w
Main-st., which is used az schoolroom. He
has employed teacher and has, besides his
own children, number from town. It is
just such small beginnings that sometimes
result in larger things This may be the
Mechanicstown Seminary, in embryo; the
"third time is the charm and it has been
tried twice before, but each time before, the
beginning was much more pretentious.
ONCE MORE We say that the next twelve
months will sound the note OF song of q
new birth for our town and THE CLARION
will be the author of part Of the music
When the proper time comes, and it comes
on apacc, We shall say "Lo Is it not even
as we have said at divers times" and then
when the real work begins and the hon.
ors how to the deserving ones our sleeves
will be UP and our brow will be shaded with
chaplets. Sefah!
FARMERS MEETEHa.-A meeting OF the
farmers was held ins4 altimpre Wednesday
to consider the.rsppSl " the committee APP.
pointed last January 70 prebaieahc drat of
a law lookin' tpAhe protection ofthe farmers
interests in thM State, which the Legislature
will be asked 70 enact at its next session
The report, 1t is understood, will deal prim,
arily with the subject Of taxation and will
recommend some very radical changes in
that direction.
The Moravian picnic in Blacks Grove on
Saturday last was one of the best of the
summer the attendance was good and CIV.
erYbody brought their supper. The exer-
cises were listened to by the usual proper.
ton of those present. The main feature was
the balloon ascension; it went up after sew.
eral trials and lessening Of the ballast, but
it unfortunately took fire before it got good
start and there were witnessed balloon as.
ccnsion and catastrophe all in one minute.
The Mcchanicstown Band discourscd some.
good music.
PoLITIcAL.-The republican primaries for
the selection Of delegates to the County Con-
vention will be held on Saturday next, gath
inst. The hour for holding the primaries
in the following districts is as follows;
Mechsnicstown 7.3O p. M.
Crcagerstown 500 p. III.
Hauvers 4p.m.
Emmitsburg 200 m.
Lewistown $50 p. III.
The County Convention will be held in
Frederick on the following Saturday, Oct
lst
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

We have had reported to US within day
or two the free use Of matches by boys too
small to know how to handle them, even
had they any business with them. Is there
no way that this most mischeviOus habit can
Inc broken uni
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

AT LAsT.-Work will begin at once upon
the construction Of the Water ComPany's
pipe line. After most vexatious and I'M
reasonable delay We will be able to 20 to
work W 18th sufficient iron on hand and re-
liable promise of the arrival Of the balance
in time to save break in the work Of pipe
aging. The work can yet be completed be-
fore cold weather,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

" Syrup. Syrup. The grandest syup
you ever ste at 40. Is 4 80 cts, 1t
ORAMER'h
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

~ Needles. Shuttles, Oll-sewing Ma
chine Supplies,
sep 6-4t At OsLER's
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-22

Mr.. Abraham Sheets, an octogenarian of
Taneytown district, died at his residence on
Friday last, and was buried in the Lutheran
cemetery at Taneytown on Saturday. 1t is
said that Mr.. Sheets had selected his tomb
stone and had it erected some time prior to
his decease. -Westminste Sentinel.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Foreign Missionaries.

Enough testimony from secular
sources to the efficiency and value of
foreign missionaries might be collated
to make volume. The Presbyterian
of Philadelphia some time ago quoted
from the address of Colonel DENLY,
the United States minister at Picking,
delivered last October, in which he
said he had just returned from a tour
of inspection of all the open ports, and
on this occasion gave the impressions
he had derived from what he had seen
of missionaries and their work. The
object of his voyage, he said, was to
look after commercial interests, but in
the course of it he had seen more mis-
sionaries than merchants and had be-
come convinced that they were carry
ing on an immense work which neither
China nor their own country could fail
to recognize. AS matter of fact,
they have planted themselves at all the
most commanding points on the sea-
board and have penetrated far into the
interior. He purposely avoided the
discussion of the work in its higher
and holier aspects, but, viewed on its
secular side, it was comforting benefits
on the United States as well as China.
BY opening the minds of the people to
new ideas it was opening new markets
for our products. The missionaries,
by their schools and their books, were
waking up the native mind and init
ating movement of Uncomfortable mag
nitude.-Dr. j. Il. Grdcey.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Concerning Sin.

Do you suppose that sin is to be
driven out of the human heart by some
fine fancy, some sentiment, some easy
method? Until you know what sin is
the gospel will be an extravagant and
unmeaning tragedy. If there is a
mystery in redemption there is equally
mystery in sin. This is the medicine
that follows the disease. Herein is the
solution of the mystery of the cross.
The CHASTITY cross follows the CHASTITY
sin; the tragedy of redemption is Gods
answer to the tragedy of crime. You
find nothing in the atonement in the
way of mystery that you do not find in
the way of sin. God could not guide
us away by soft words from the chains
of hell. 1t could only be done by
blood. You have been thinking sin a
trifle. | wonder not, then, you have
been thinking the cross tragedy ex-
travagant beyond the necessity of the
case. If you have been calling sin
g infrmity," " mistake" 1 wonder not
that you are frightened by the awful
transactions that are here in the four
gospels. You need the whole blood of
the whole heart of the dying Savior to
help you to get rid of sin and to be de-
livered from its bondage.-Dr. Joseph
Parker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Carpets versus Boys.

Jane, what does make you have
those great, stamping boys in your par
Tor every Sabbath night?" 81 Because
/ love Them {" But | should think
they would spoil your new carpet. 1t
is light and must show the spots that
seven or eight pairs of boots make.
When it is snowy, they must bring in
the snow; and when it is muddy, track
in the dirt. Dear mel / would not
have half a dozen boys in my parlor
once week for good round sum-"
| wish there was a dozen of them"
But don't you know they will wear
your carpets more than half a dozen
parties? Boys boots are so heavy and
their steps so careless. | expect some
of them have nails in their boots.
shouldn't enjoy the bows ANYWAY"
Yes, that's it," And am sure |
would be in the fdgets every minute
Perhaps you would, but think not.
/ think you would, after a time. like
myself, delight in having them with
you. | think our weekly class PRAYER
meeting helps these boys. Indeed. |
know il helps them. 1t gives me
great deal more pleasure than saving
the carpet ever could. Perhaps they
do wear it little; but boys are worth
more than carpets, be they three-ply,
tapestry or the best that ever were
made. I've got the best interest on
this parlor investment of any venture |
ever had, and I've tried it ten years.
Read this and see if it is not better
than money at ten per cent, or saving
your parlor carpets. A young man, a
tutor in the college, writes: Those
precious Sabbath-night meetings! the
dearest memories of my boyhood cling
about them. | don't think / should
ever have started in the right way if it
had not been for them. And after
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Answers to Puzzles of Last Week.
The Rings in Trees.

Every day, says the Lumber World,
some pet theory, long held and honestly
venerated, is being demolished and sent
to the limbo of myth. Now the age
rings in trees has to suffer limboniza-
ton, if the word may be allowed. Mr..
X. w. Furras, an agent of the United
States forestry department, who has
given much attention to the age of a
tree as indicated by rings, as well as to
the period at which trees of different
species stop growing and that at which
the wood is at its best, has reached
some conclusions of general interest.
He says: " Concentric or annual rings,
which were once accepted as good legal
evidence, fail, except where climate,
soil, temperature, humidity and all other
surroundings are regular and well bal
anced. Otherwise they are mere guess
work. The only regions within my
knowledge where either rings or meas
urements were reliable indications are
in the secluded, even and regularly
tempered valleys of the southern Pa
ciiic coast" Annual measurements of
white elm, catalpa, soft maple, syca-
more, pig hickory, cottonwood, chest
nut, box elder, honey locust, coffee
tree, burr and white oak, black walnut,
Usage orange, white pine, red cedar,
mulberry and yellow willow (nineteen
species), made in southeastern Ne
braska, show that annual growth is
very irregular, sometimes scarcely per-
ceptible and again quite large" and
this he attributes to the difference in
seasons. AS trees increase in age inner
rings decrease in size, sometimes al
most disappearing. Diminished rate
of growth after certain age is a rule.
OF four great beeches mentioned by Lou
don there were three, each about seven
teen feet in girth, whose ages were re-
spectively sixty, one hundred two and
two hundred years. Mr.. Furras found
twelve rings in black locust six years
old, twenty-one rings in ashell-bark hick-
DRY of twelve years, ten rings in pig
hickory of six years, eleven rings in
wild crab-apple of five years and only
twenty rings in a chestnut oak oftwenty-
four years. An American chestnut of
only four years had nine rings, while a
peach of eight had only five rings. DR..
A. NJ. Childs, resident of Nebraska
from 1854 to 1882, a careful observer for
the Smithsonian Institution, who
counted rings on some soft naples eleven
years two months old, found on one side
of the heart of one of them forty rings,
and not less than thirty-fve anywhere,
which were quite distinct when the wood
was green, but after it had been sea-
soned only twenty-four rings could be
distinguished.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
The Pastors Sincerity of
Conviction.

What pastor himself really feels he
will be eager to make his people feel.
1t is impossible to conceive that one,
himself really convinced of the fact of
hell or the fact of a heaven. can
speak tamely either of the awfulness
of the one or the glory of the other.
Words coming from no deeper depth
than the lips will never move any one.
Extraordinary spiritual power has often
been granted to pastors of very limited
scholarship, while, on the other hand,
it is often surprisingly wanting in pas
tors whose scholarship is high and who
possess remarkable gifts and graces of
speech. The explanation of this must
be that divine truth has deeper hold
on the convictions and emotions of the
former than it has upon those of the
latter. There is spell in deep-hearted
subsection of pastor TO spiritual truth
which will make itself felt. Mere in
tellect may never, but real heart always
will find hearts. Depth and courage of
conviction in pastor are worth more
than fluent or even brilliant speech. If
pastor were called to choose between
high scholarship and great gifts and
graces without heart and lower schol-
arship and more limited gifts and graces
Nth heart, he should select the latter
without hesitation if he really covets
the possession and advantages of spir-
itual power.-Notional IntelHgencer
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Mlural anb Religious.
The Deluge.

Around the globe one wave from pole to pole
Rolled on, and found no shore to break its roll
One awful water mirrored everywhere
The silent, blue illimitabe air
And glassed In one same hour the midnight moon,
Sunrise aud sunset and the sun at noon.
Afar, between the sunset and the dark
The lions had awakened in the ark
Across the great red spendor white wings flew,
Weary of wandering where no green leaf grew,
Weary of searching for that unbound shore
From which the raven had returned no more.
And rs the white wings labored slowly back,
And down the huge orb sank, a speck of black
Stood iuttering in the circle of the sun
Beneath the noontde sun twas still as death,
Within the dawn no living thing drew breath.
Beneath the cold white moon the cold blue wave
Sealed with an icy hush the old worlds grave
But harkl upon the sunsets edge were heard,
Afar and faint the cries of beast and bird.
While the long pillows, passing one by one,
Lifted and lowered in the crimson blaze
A dead queen of the old and evil days.
One gold-clasped arm lay beautiful and bare;
The gold of power cleaned in her floating hair;
Her 1eweled raiment in the CLASSY swell
Ghttered; and ever as she rose and fell,
And DER his redeemed claws the ripple broke,
The raven fiuttered with uneasy croak.
William Canton in Good Words.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
4---Hidden WOrd-SQuare.

PLEASE do, Ralph, stop making so
much noise.
2-You may give the orange to Leod
or Richard, just as you please.
3-We went trouting yesterday and
caught twenty.
My hand smarts now where the
hornet stung it.
In the above find words with the fol-
lowing definitions:
IA female character in David
Copperfield.
"a perfume.
$40 drive out or expel.
4-Devices. LITTLE MAY.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27

NEURoTIC OIL-the great pain-cure.
NEuRoTIC OIL cures cramps, collie
and diarrh9a.
NEURoTIC OIL is safe, sure and
speedy.
NEURoTIC OIL conquers rheumatism
and neuralgia.
NEUROTIC OIL cures all aches and
pains.
NEUROTIC OIL is the favorite family
medicine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27

TRUE to their colors are the Diamond
Dyes, and for that reason they are the
standard dye colors in all parts of the
country. They give fast and beautiful
shades and do not fade. Thirty-two
colors. Only ten cents each.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
puSsle Corner.
1...DiamOnd.


The school-boy scowled an awful scowl.
His book aside he threw;
He'd studied long his alphabet,
Yet only FIRST he knew.
The topper staggered to the bar
With bleared and blood-shot eyes;
For second then he paid dime
Now in the ditch he lies.
The man that peddles lightning.rods
Came galy up the street;
His look was very sweet and mira
When passers he would greet
The bankrupt man walked slowly on,
As one might in dream,
" This Is the Jourth," he cried at length,
And leaped into the stream
The school-boy gathered up his book,
Which he had thrown away,
And studying then with all his might,
He learned my nm that day. HELEN.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
gegal Clothes.
MAHLON c. KINsON,s ESTATE.
WILLIAM 5. ATKINS ESTATE.

" O0INI Z.
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Wash
ington Commissioners, to receive. examine and adj
just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of William s. Atkins late of Cabot VT in
said District, deceased and all claims exhibited in
offset thereto hereby give notice that will meet
for the purposes aforesaid at the dwelling of
Mary L. Atkins, in said Cabot, the 27h day of Au-
gust and 10Th day of December next, from o'clock
until four O'Clock p. NJ, each of said days, and
that six months from the 18th day of June A. D. 1851
is the time limited by said Court for said creditors
present their claims to us for examination and al
lowance.
Dated at Cabot Vt, this 18th day of July, A d.
1857. GEORGE NJ WEBSTER
l4-l6 T. H.IANCE COMMISSIONERS
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27

If the liver and kidneys are sluggish
and inactive Hoods Sarsaparilla will
rouse them to prompt and regular
action. Take it now.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
I YMAN DRURY'S ESTATE.

IL COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
>, The undersigned having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Ran
dolph Commissioners, to receive, examine and ad-
the estate of LYMAN Drury late of Williamstown'
in said District deceased, and all claims exhibited in
offset thereto, hereby give notice that we will meet
for the purposes aforesaid at the dwelling house of
W. r. and Mary j. Drury, on the Sd day of September
next, from ten O'Clock A. NJ. until four o'clock Z. M
on said day and that six months from the th day of
May, A. d. 1851 is the time limited by said Court for
said creditors to present their claims us for ex-
animation and allowance.
Dated at Williamstown this llth day of July, A d.
1857. CYRUS L. LATUROP .
l3-l5 WILLIAM H. PRATT commissioners
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
3---What Is 1t?

Take word meaning disguise, re-
move its head and put another in its
place and have a piece of work: re-
move this head and replace it by another
and have a small wooden receptacle
resembling a barrel. Take the head
out of this and have to make request.
J. O. II, N.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
HEzzE,IK$IdA,HL III 4; RE REEp,s ESTATE.

In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in said Dis.
trict, ON the 18th day of July, A. ID. 1857;
John A, Page, Executor of the last will and
testament of Hezekah II. Reed, late of Montpelier
in said District deceased, presents his supplementary
administration account for examination and ar
lowance, and makes application for a decree
of distribution and partition of the estate of
SAID deceased Wherenpo III ordered by said Court
TO session thereof to be held at the Probate ONCE,
in said Montpelier, ON the 18th day of August,
A. ID lSs7, for hearing and decision thereon: And,
II is further ordered, that notice hereof be given
to all persons interested by publication of the same
three weeks successfully In the Vermont HafchndR
STATE JoHrHdi anewspaper publsheda at Montpelier,
previous TO said time appointed for hearing that they
may appear at said time and place and show cause,
II any they may have, why said account should not
be allowed and such decree made
by the Court.-Attest,
l+l6 HIRAM CARLETON, Judge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
2---Enigna.

My 6 II 8 Is is the noise made by a
dog.
My 10 s 10 is to feel anxious.
My 10 3 4 16 Is is path or route.
My / 2 10 IA is young OK.
My 16 A II II is money.
The whole is something that we eat
In the summertime. G.. r. T.